UX Magazine running on Drupal

Article No :424 | June 29, 2009 | by Constantinos Demetriadis

What a week! We have a bunch of new and exciting stuff to announce this week, but we'll start off the day by announcing our transition to Drupal. UX Magazine is now running on Drupal 6. The design has been left intact, although most of our frequent visitors will notice a dramatic upgrade regarding the sites' speed. We've also moved all out stuff over to the Rackspace cloud. We might still have some unresolved issues in the backend, and we might have to double up on some feeds but please bare bear with us, this is all part of the transition...

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About the Author(s)

Constantinos is employed as a Creative Director for Tribal DDB Athens. In his ever dwindling spare time he works on the development of UX Magazine and Joblet. You can find out more about him here of follow him on twitter.

It's great to see somebody take the time to post some postive feedback about Drupal. Maybe this will show through as a beacon for those stuck where you were, questioning their journey with Drupal. Well done with your site too, an excellent example. Kind regards, Cody Phillips

I swear I could put all the Drupal nay-sayers in a room and test them on the subject matter and they'd know nothing about the product. While it may be more difficult to use than Wordpress, it's 20X the tool. Drupal is blogging tool, Drupal on the other hand can be molded into serious complex applications. If you want a blog, you can have that too.

Congrats on your choice.

Do you decide to get an subscription with Acquia in case you need help?

Drupal is really great. I think for the breadth of what drupal does, it is pretty easy to learn and administer a site. I'm not saying it is perfect - far form it, but of all the things I think the simplicity of it stands out for me. This, in part, stems from some of the architecture and design (not the implementation as I think not separating presentation from model is a huge mistake) - for example, nodes and what they are and how things like collaborative books work. This architecture/design makes for, in large part, the simplicity I speak of.

Thats a good news, Drupal is a very good platform for managing your contents and but as I am visiting your site for the first site, which platform you guys were using prior moving to Drupal ? And how's it performing since many big-scale organizations uses Drupal and regard it as the best content management platfor ?

I was using WP and several days ago my website was broken, coz one of the plugins was broken.
Sometimes I think that it's better to work with simple html without any CMS coz it's the most reliable thing.

When we first started UX Magazine, we chose textpattern as our CMS of choice, and for a good reason.

It was the best publishing platform available at the time. As time passed, we need more functionality, and an easier workflow from "content submission to editing to publishing".

Textpattern proved to be a bit stiff in that area.

In the meantime we started using Drupal for a lot of our client work, and other personal projects, and we came to trust it in most situations. We also became rather proficient at it. So the migration was kind of a very logical way to advance UX Magazine.

The workflow is still being worked on, but the plethora of modules, and flexibility of Drupal, will allow us to perfect the system as time goes by...